About the book: 2014 / Eccentric - bizarre - strange. "Bizar" (English). The new novel by Andrei Ivanov is a line on the National Best list even before its publication. An absolutely Russian novel with a completely different (non-Russian) geography. “Bizar” is a modern version of Gorky’s “At the Lower Depths,” only with a different depth of immersion. Immersion in the reality of Europe, which seems to not exist. The heroes of the novel are marginalized and holy fools, not at all holy settlers of a European camp for illegal immigrants. People who are not on either side of the border. Foreign countries are everywhere for them. Despair, disorder, hopelessness - this is the existential essence of the eccentric - bizarre - strange. “Bizar” is a novel about the fact that no one can cancel anything: neither happiness, nor despair, nor lust, nor love - the desire (you) to live. And in this sense, we are all, we are all somewhat BIZAR.